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Definition of Swelter
1. Verb. Be uncomfortably hot.
2. Verb. Suffer from intense heat. "We were sweltering at the beach"
Definition of Swelter
1. v. i. To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
2. v. t. To oppress with heat.
Definition of Swelter
1. Verb. (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat. ¹
3. Noun. Intense heat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swelter
1. to suffer from oppressive heat [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swelter
Literary usage of Swelter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by James Thomas Molesworth, Baba Padmanji (1863)
"2 To be hot — weather ; to feel close and confined — a room or place ; to swelter.
3"$?^T a. Squat, cowering, sitting close. ..."
2. Hard Times and what to Learn from Them: A Plain Talk with the Working People by Robert Ellis Thompson (1877)
"... who hardly do of work, while those who sweat and swelter gc It is not right
that men who are willing to we dependent upon others for leave to work. ..."
3. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1886)
"Or, on a sultry day, Russians may swelter under the fur costume suited for their
own wintry climate. companies that the privileges of the landing-depot ..."
4. Report and Transactions (1875)
"Walker—" swelter. To be pained with heat. To parch or dry up with heat. ...
swelter " is used about Torquay. Honoring—" swelter. Extreme perspiration. ..."
5. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by James Thomas Molesworth, Baba Padmanji (1863)
"2 To be hot — weather ; to feel close and confined — a room or place ; to swelter.
3"$?^T a. Squat, cowering, sitting close. ..."
6. Hard Times and what to Learn from Them: A Plain Talk with the Working People by Robert Ellis Thompson (1877)
"... who hardly do of work, while those who sweat and swelter gc It is not right
that men who are willing to we dependent upon others for leave to work. ..."
7. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1886)
"Or, on a sultry day, Russians may swelter under the fur costume suited for their
own wintry climate. companies that the privileges of the landing-depot ..."
8. Report and Transactions (1875)
"Walker—" swelter. To be pained with heat. To parch or dry up with heat. ...
swelter " is used about Torquay. Honoring—" swelter. Extreme perspiration. ..."
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